Dayna Bateman is a recovering tech worker (MSc, HCI) and an emerging writer. Her work has appeared in trade publications like Internet Retailing and literary journals like Pacifica and TheAmerican Literary Review. She is a 2026 Klaustrið Artist in Residence.
About me and my work
I received the 2025 ALR Essay Prize for my essay Deracination, Or How to Disappear, which interrogates the decision of my Indigenous Sámi ancestors to pass for White in the racial climate of 1880s America. An alum of the Tin House, Kenyon Review, and Granta Memoir Workshops, I was awarded a Storyknife Residency on the strength and promise of my memoir-in-progress.
Projects in flight
I am seeking representation for my memoir Hustling Vinyl, about growing up on the spinning edge of the vinyl record business during the golden age of rock music.
It has been said that reading is inhaling and writing is exhaling. Here’s what I’m reading now or just put down.
